The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.
When the world has once begun to use us ill, and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.
Life is ever since man was born, licking honey from a thorn.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
